Title: Squirrel
Screenplay and Director: Julia Ocker
Animators: Sofiia Melnyk
Sound Design and Music: Christian Heck, Sumophonic
Production: Thomas Meyer-Hermann
Year: 2022
Country: Germany
Length: 3 mins and 37 secs
As the squirrel mother is busy gathering nuts, she forgets to keep an eye on the kids.
Biography
Julia Ocker is an animation director, designer and author from Stuttgart. She studied Visual communication in Germany and Egypt. Her graduation film “Kellerkind” won the First Steps Awards 2012, the Tricky Women Prize 2013 and was nominated for the 2014 Annie Awards. Julia discovered her passion for children’s movies as she had the opportunity to produce five short films from which came her own series “Animanimals”. The series has been sold to more than 180 international territories and in 2019 was nominated for an International Emmy. Also, episodes standing as individual short films have won 70 awards across the globe. The second season of the ANIMANIMALS will be finished in 2022.